8 papers in the library · 7 citations · publishing 2010-2026
September 29, 2026 Jonardon Ganeri
Abstract Further insight is at hand in a text Bhattacharyya does not discuss, but might have, Manu’s Code Law. Here we find a description of the lived experience of the wandering ascetic (yati), depicted as consisting in a state of ambient perceptual awareness; the experience of the ascetic is one of full attentional retraction. When Kalidas Bhattacharyya writes that ‘negative attention [is] a...
September 29, 2026 Jonardon Ganeri
Abstract Disjunctivism is the view that we must give different explanations for genuine perceptual experience and for perceptual illusions and hallucinations. Some contemporary scholars have argued that Nyāya philosophy of perception is disjunctivist. This chapter disagrees with this claim, and demonstrates that, for Nyāya, seeing is uniform. The entire point of the Nyāya discussion of illusion...
September 29, 2026 Jonardon Ganeri
Abstract There is a philosophy of perception, so-called naïve realism—now more often known as ‘relationalism’, because it is the view that perception consists in an acquaintance relation between perceiver and object—which, while eschewing any requirement on having a perceptual experience that the experience is subjective (that the perceiver be attentive to some aspect of their inner life in...
The Monist January 18, 2022 Jonardon Ganeri
AbstractThe phrase “cosmic consciousness” has a surprising and fascinating history. I will show how it first enters into circulation in the writings of the remarkable Englishman Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), a socialist, philosopher, and prescient activist for gay rights and prison reform. Carpenter made a trip to India and Sri Lanka in 1890, where he spent two months sitting at the feet of...
Ratio August 2, 2018 Jonardon Ganeri 2 citations
Abstract Buddhist philosophy of mind is fascinating because it denies that there is a self in one of the ways that has traditionally seemed best able to make sense of that idea: the idea that the self is the agent of actions including the thinking of thoughts. In the Buddhist philosophy of mind of the fifth century thinker Buddhaghosa what does the explanatory work is instead attention....
Oxford University Press eBooks April 26, 2012 Jonardon Ganeri
This chapter discusses a development that took place in Buddhism in the sixth century, and subsequently had wide repercussions in the Indian discussion of self. Reflexivism (svasaṃvedana) is the thesis that self‐consciousness consists in conscious mental occurrences being reflexively conscious of themselves. Dignāga's defence of reflexivism consists in part in a new “two aspects” theory of...
Oxford University Press eBooks April 26, 2012 Jonardon Ganeri
Abstract There are two ways to account for the nature of phenomenologically presented ownership constitutive of the "immersed" self. One sees it as fundamentally a relationship of bodily ownership: the theory of a core self as bodily feeling of presence to oneself is a bodily account of immersion. Other accounts develop an analysis out of a more detailed study of the structure of...
Oxford University Press eBooks December 1, 2010 Jonardon Ganeri 5 citations
Subjectivity, Selfhood and the Use of the Word 'I' JONARDON GANERI I. Asan ˙ga and Vasubandhu on Self-Consciousness and Conscious Attention to Oneself A well-known Buddhist philosophy of mind has it that conscious experience is a synthesis of five forms of activity: the processes of registering, appraising, stereotyping, readying, and consciously attending.1These philosophers say that the last...